Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:04:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:04:14 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:9176 "EHLO zcars04f.ca.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:04:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3D3EFAD4.C1D2DE4A@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:07:00 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jamie Lokier , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 21 Linus Torvalds wrote: > The thing is, we cannot change existing select semantics, and the question > is whether what most soft-realtime wants is actually select, or whether > people really want a "waittimeofday()". Actually, I'd like a waitonmonotonicallyincreasingnonadjustablehighres64bittime(). Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/